English Explanatory Dictionary

end organ

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small organ at the terminal end of a nerve conduction pathway.
  2. The ultimately affected organ in a chain of events, such as a disease process (pathophysiology) or a drug's mechanism of action (sometimes called a target organ in this sense).

Word forms

end organ end organs end-organ
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